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Richard Mott letter to Thomas Rotch, Mamaroneck 7th mo 27, 1803

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B-127-1
Mamaroneck 7th mo 27, 1803
If my stock will furnish no more am ready to conclude, shall
be aboe to say, that my dear Sister Charity Rotch's letter of 22nd Ult
came to hand late last evening, being indeed very acceptable
and cordial to ther poor friends at Mamaroneck, "day after day
and week after week has pass'd without hearing of thy getting
safe home" after parting with my dear brother at Hartford, firstly
I journey'd pensively along, made several stops, and reach'd my
dear A Motts abode at evening, as I had in the course of he day
much opertunity for reflection, thou will readily conclude, that
I frequently ponder'd the paths of my fut, as I journey'd home=
=ward, and tho I felt very poor and strip'd could not discover
but what, under existing circumstances, I was endeavoring to do
right, and which Idea, I have since steadily embrac'd, and yet
perhaps a day has scarcely pass'd without my being looking over
Connecticut, and making my friends at Hartford Ideal visits &
whether the season will ever come (to me) that it will apear right
to return to the field is quite hidden he that knows all
things, only knowsl for his direction, I most sincerely wish attentively
to wait, and at his commands to move, however in a line frequently
oposing my own inclination- I was glad, seeing nothing else
could do it, that necessity impell'd my belov'd friend to enquire
thro this medium, a little after us, it was no less pleasing to find

B-127-1
Mamaroneck 7th mo 27, 1803
If my stock will furnish no more am ready to conclude, shall
be aboe to say, that my dear Sister Charity Rotch's letter of 22nd Ult
came to hand late last evening, being indeed very acceptable
and cordial to ther poor friends at Mamaroneck, "day after day
and week after week has pass'd without hearing of thy getting
safe home" after parting with my dear brother at Hartford, firstly
I journey'd pensively along, made several stops, and reach'd my
dear A Motts abode at evening, as I had in the course of he day
much opertunity for reflection, thou will readily conclude, that
I frequently ponder'd the paths of my fut, as I journey'd home=
=ward, and tho I felt very poor and strip'd could not discover
but what, under existing circumstances, I was endeavoring to do
right, and which Idea, I have since steadily embrac'd, and yet
perhaps a day has scarcely pass'd without my being looking over
Connecticut, and making my friends at Hartford Ideal visits &
whether the season will ever come (to me) that it will apear right
to return to the field is quite hidden he that knows all
things, only knowsl for his direction, I most sincerely wish attentively
to wait, and at his commands to move, however in a line frequently
oposing my own inclination- I was glad, seeing nothing else
could do it, that necessity impell'd my belov'd friend to enquire
thro this medium, a little after us, it was no less pleasing to find